Housing bill a sign of societal decline

They can be up to date on their existing mortgage or in default, ... homeowners can get FHA-backed mortgages, they must first retire any other debt on the home, such as a home equity loan or line of credit. Borrowers are not permitted to take out another home equity loan [more...]

Date: 2008-07-27 00:48:04

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How to Understand Credit Report

How to Understand Credit Report posted on January 8th, 2009 Now that you have obtained your credit report, ... the company name is a description of the type of account (such as student loans, credit card or line ... the first thing you need to do is read through it and understand what it all means. Don’t feel bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 08:35:23

How the Fed's cut will filter down to borrowers, savers

After the Federal Reserve’s latest half-point interest rate cut on Wednesday (to 1% for its benchmark rate) ... and small-business loans: Because banks typically lower their prime lending rates in tandem with Fed rate reductions, many floating-rate loans pegged to the prime -- such as home-equity credit lines [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 05:00:31

Mortgage Lessons From Down Under: US Politicians Were Wrong to Pimp The Homeownership Fraud

Lessons To Learn From Mortgage Lending in Australia: Maybe only a friendly foreigner could say this ... would have brought in had it been carried to term." Bottom Line: One part of fixing our credit crisis ... is that nobody in Washington seems to be talking about fixing it. ~Editorial in today's WSJ [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 14:24:28

It’s worth the hell

Apple continues to amaze. I’ve never seen a company have a technical meltdown in front of the eyes of the world the way Apple did today ... you more than other devices. Make you wait hours in line. Take hours to get your credit card approved ... fixing all the bugs that caused today’s debacle. That said, no other company in the world has so much [more...]

Date: 2008-07-12 01:49:26

Get Lower Monthly Payments With Homeownership

Being a homeowner will provide you with many benefits when applying for all kind of loans ... ://www.speedybadcreditloans.com/online-bad-credit-mortgage.html home loans /URL and home equity loans but also on unsecured loans like personal loans, lines of credit, cash advances, etc. Thus [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 23:14:58

links for 2008-10-14

No Time to Waste . . . - The Big Picture Death rate 70 percent lower at top-rated hospitals - EurekAlert Wall Street's Nine Banking Families Fail ... Credit Default Swap fault-lines: Lessons from 2005 GM, Ford crisis - Vox EU Preserving Forests ... How to Repair What Ails Us - The Big Picture Why don’t we trust a stranger? Ties that bind - Vox EU [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 07:06:00

Blaming the Poor

You have, no doubt been wondering who to blame for the current market meltdown ... One of the reasons so many bad mortgage loans were made in the first place is that Barack Obama’s celebrated ... was originally passed to combat “red-lining,” the practice by which credit-worthy applicants were denied loans [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 23:26:00

5 Factors Affecting Your Credit Score

Here’s the bottom line. I'm told all the time: “I PAY MY BILLS ON TIME, BUT MY PEOPLE SAY MY CREDIT STINKS ... as a roadmap to building a good credit report. Here are 5 factors impacting your credit score ... is positive, rather than a concentration in credit cards only. 5. Inquiries have a 10 percent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:53:07

NO BLESSED OBLIGE? NOT OUR NOBLEMEN!

.BANKERS & BROKERS & BUREAUCRATS ARE NOT LIKE USTHEY ARE UNANSWERABLE. THEY HAVE NO OBLIGATIONS TO ANYONE. THEY SPIT ON YOUR PETTY LEGALITIES. PTUI! ... be lucky if they even LET you eat cake, now! They may choose, instead, to cut off your credit lines [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 10:01:00

Is RPX’s “Defensive Patent Aggregation” Simply Patent Extortion By Another Name?

Patent litigation is getting so bad that a new startup, RPX Corp. (aka, Rational Patent) ... patents in RPX’s portfolio can’t be used in litigation against your company. RPX is clearly not as bad ... Ventures, and also has other sources of capital, including debt and credit lines, available [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 16:50:44

Walking Away Relieved When Deals Were Rejected

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports from Pennsylvania. “This is supposed to be a buyer’s market ... We refinanced and took out a home-equity line of credit several years ago to help make ends meet [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 15:50:35

Investors See A Silver Lining of the Green Crunch

The credit crunch and dropping oil prices could threaten certain aspects of cleantech investing, ... just started to look pretty bad for fund raising, so why not wait it out? Tesla has a loan ... . Now with a green crunch blowing in, particularly for later-stage companies looking for financing [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 22:06:16

The Shrinking HELOC

All serious real estate investors understand the importance of having a hefty HELOC in their back pocket ... I would also say I’m not the only one in this boat. You may have had your home equity line of credit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 15:12:01

And They Say Agrarians Are Fringe

Bring tidings of bad news and you are a scrooge.  Bear tidings of a lot of bad news happening at the same time and you are a ‘chicken little’ ... like foreclosures in 2008 will look like a birthday party compared to 2009.  Credit lines are expected [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 06:05:30

What the Fed's .50 rate cut means for Helocs & Credit Cards.

I heart CNN like crazy, they are REALLY on top of their ish over there! ... now be a crazy low rate of 4.05%!!! how crazy is that? And you know it's bad out there when my 2nd ... . This means total greatness! Since our Home Equity Line of Credit is tied to the Prime Rate (which [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 15:12:00

Baby Boomers - 6 ways to retire comfortably

Baby Boomers - 6 ways to retire comfortably by Matt Hellstrom Lately I’ve seen an ad on TV where people are carrying around a big orange number ... sum, or just have the money available as a line of credit. 2. You could get a job. Maybe all you’ll [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:41:13

TheCramerReport.com's Mad Money Recap - December 9, 2008

TheCramerReport.com's Mad Money Recap - December 9, 2008 Submitted by just another Cramerholic on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 19:31 ... . Otherwise, he wants you to sit and wait while overly bullish people buy bad stocks, and overly bearish ... of their equipment to us. All sales in the third world are backed by a line of credit. Cramer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 00:31:24

Old Year, New Year

Well Happy New Year to everyone!I don't make resolutions, but I do make goals. My big goal in 2009 is to clear the debt off our power line of credit ... when you look at what I did complete. I don't think the slow down is a bad thing since it comes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 18:11:00

Can Battery Technology Save GM?

The saga at GM continues. On Monday I spoke of GM's Ridiculous Bluff to raise prices on the 2009 line of autos ... cut GMAC's credit rating one level to six rankings below investment-grade last week as ResCap burns through cash after losing $5.3 billion in the past six quarters. Credit-default swap prices give [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 14:48:55

New Life Church, 2 Years After Haggard; 1 Year After Shootings, is Thriving

It's been a rough couple years for New Life Church in Colorado Springs ... , he was given the status report: $25 million in debt on New Life’s massive building; no available cash, and a line of credit was being utilized to help pay the salaries of the church’s 150 staff [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 14:41:12

Design An Open Source T-Shirt With Mozilla

My personal opinion is that Mozilla is the second most interesting web name out there, just behind the big company with the little search box ... or more) in JPG or PNG with your own name for the credit line. The guidelines do not curb your creative [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 19:12:43

Beating Collectors With Credit Repair

You may encounter a reasonable, mild mannered collector someday, but do not hold your breath. Collectors are trained to be emotionally effective. This means aggressive. They will keep you on the phone as long as they can in an attempt to bend your will to theirs. Their goal is to get money out of you, whatever it takes. Unfortunately, in their effort to dominate, they often step over the line of legality, and hence arises the need for credit repair techniques to neutralize their wayward conduct. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-25 15:17:42

Best of Million Dollar Journey: 2008 Edition

2008 was a whirl wind year with commendable growth for Million Dollar Journey.  Posting 5 days a week (or more) ... I get is “how do I capitalize the interest with an investment line of credit?”  This article uses [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 11:30:18

Save the Paper! Should Newspapers Steer Clear of the Web?

By Tommy De Seno Attorney/Writer It’s time for an end of the year wrap-up of the news delivery biz ... ? This past year was arguably the worst in history for American papers. The New York Times owes approximately $400 million on credit lines and is ... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 17:22:40

Top 1000 most expensive keywords updated 725-825

Updated the next 100 from 725-825 wow did you know that enterprise web hosting costs you $32 , ... bad credit remortgage uk $32.60 mercedes car insurance $32.59 injury at work ... equity line of credit rates $32.93 life insurance cover $32.93 equity loan [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 21:46:00

Transcript: DICK Cheney on Fox News Sunday | The Exit Interview | December 21, 2008

(Source: CQ Transcriptswire) Editor’s Note: This portion of the show transcript contains only the Cheney interview. Mr. Chris WALLACE: Mr ... s package basically extends a line of credit to the companies for a specified period of time and also [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 20:13:21

How Cutting The Fed Funds Rate Helps The U.S. Economy

... which credit card, equity line, and construction loan borrowing rates are based. As Prime Rate ... be needed to reverse that path. As Prime Rate falls, it brings business borrowing costs [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 10:00:03

Men, Women & Relationships – An Objective Approach towards the battle between the sexes. Part - 1

Hi all,It’s been so long since I entered the blog world. Lots of things have been happening in my life ... and I don’t own any credit for those lines. It belongs wholly to Allan & Barbara Pease. I have also taken [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 21:52:00

Overcoming a Routine of Bounced Check Fees, Overdraft Fees, and Payday Loans

“Max” is a friend of mine ( ... and poor credit), he’s often riding the fine line of having enough money to make it through a month, even with some state assistance - and sometimes he falls short. Falling short when you have no credit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 20:00:14

The Roundup: Little Curry, Bad Browns Fans

When in doubt - Megan Fox … hope she sues the idiotic radio station and wins a fortune … has your credit card line shrunk? It will … a swarm of 40,000 show up for free food … if one day this blog [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 13:00:41

Wall Street Hyperbole and the Real Estate Markets

Tell a friend to subscribe to the RSS feed and we *might* tell Santa to not leave coal in your stocking this year! ... ), provable income and assets in line with the loan amount being requested, and a credit score above ... qualification: credit, cash (down payment or true equity) or income, they got approved somewhere.  Today [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 20:42:21

Who is to Blame for the Mortgage and Foreclosure Mess?

Who is to Blame for the Mortgage and Foreclosure Mess? November 15th, 2008 By BRIDGET MAGNUS ... they had to take out second mortgages or equity lines of credit to pay the bills. This left them [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 21:13:17

Save the Paper! Should Newspapers Steer Clear of the Web?

It’s time for an end of the year wrap-up of the news delivery biz ... approximately $400 million on credit lines and is considering refinancing its 8th Avenue building [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:19:50

The Obamamercial Live

Live blogging the Obama Infomercial .... so you don't have to. (see this, this, this) Wheat .... Flags .... Fans in slow motion ... of energy independence. The Green Economy. American built hybrids and a tax credit to buy them ... for it all without raising taxex, line by line fixing of the budget. Iraq. OH, nice job. Segue [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 01:00:00

Recession Should Be Over Soon

This chart and the other chart below are from a report on the Vox blog ... with a stock-market crash and a melt-down of the financial system. Banks withdrew credit lines [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:26:25

Following Grueling Financial Times You Can Re-establish Your Credit

September 29, 2009 | By Kevin Lynch In Blogging | by Kevin LynchRebuilding credit after a time of monetary hardships, insolvency, repossessions or other monetary damage that blemishes any credit report can be frightening and baffling. For most people these are times of awful pressure. But times change and situations change so don’t let the liberation than comes when the income and cash get back in line be overshadowed by the problems left on the credit report. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 17:00:00

GOOD Congressional challengers on FISA: The List

(originally posted at Daily Kos) In the last couple days, ... against this bill. They do deserve credit, as it's their jobs on the line. Below the fold, I've ... , professional, accurate intelligence collection guidelines were used to protect America [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 16:31:03

Following Complex Financial Times You Can Rebuild Your Credit

Upgrading credit after a interval of monetary hardships, bankruptcy, repossessions or other monetary strain that blemishes any credit report can be scary and baffling. For most people these are times of hideous strain. But times change and situations change so don't let the relief than comes when the wages and money get back in line be overshadowed by the tribulations left on the credit report. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 14:11:53

New Orleans Condo Search, Your credit scores do matter when applying for a loan!

    Banks and lenders have been increasing the scores needed to get the best rates on loans in 2009 ... .       This means it a great idea to check your credit score out while you are still in the early ... and get it fixed.  There are ways to make your credit score go up by reviewing your open lines [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:59:19

ONE Tip for 2009 - Identity Theft Still Rampant so Sign up for Lifelock.com

I got this email from some very close friends yesterday who were asking to spread the word about their identity thefts: ... more issues on my credit report before it is over. I am going to have to testify against the woman ... in custody. We have had credit card fraud, checks cashed, new accounts opened on line and in stores [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 19:51:24

Eleven Ways To Improve Your Credit Score

Credit scores are one of those little things in life that while they can have a significant impact on people's financial bottom lines, ... your score. 1) Order a copy of your credit report. Review it carefully. Correct any significant errors. This can be done by sending in letters to all three of the credit bureaus. 2) Pay your bills [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 18:02:36

Bad News: Unemployment Troubles Looming

Is trouble around the bend for the unemployed in Kentucky? ... a line of credit to the Commonwealth as a temporary fix. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:54:33

Personal Finance Review – The Car is Dead Edition

I spent a good part of this week with my car in the shop ... to repair something, and that’s frustrating for me since I am used to doing my own repairs whenever ... kept me from having to use credit to pay the bill. That was one bright lining in an otherwise [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 13:05:58

A Silver Lining for Students: More Federal Student Loans Are Available

Credit is retracting in nearly every sector - home mortgages are dwindling, business loans are down, car loans are non-existent ... student loans may not be enough to cover a family's total need — which means students may ... loans. The total number of student loans made in 2008 is up 18.6% from 2007, according [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 05:13:50

Host Unlimited Bandwith - The Good And The Bad

It seems that almost everyone you come across has their own web page ... wishing to conduct business on line, you should think about such things as shopping carts, credit card ... to go packages where you can list your profile, pictures and a ‘mates’ list. Others offer bulletin forums [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:28:07

Who’s At Fault for Economic Crisis - Everyone: Tom Friedman

I would encourage everyone to read Thomas Friedman’s column in the New York Times today.  Along those same lines check out PBS’ Now and their report on the credit rating agencies ... , with nothing down and nothing to pay for two years; people who had no business pushing such mortgages [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 14:57:32

Steelers Offensive Line Had Solid Outing Last Time Out Against Baltimore

The last time these two hated rivals met - in Week 14 at Baltimore - the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line had a much better day than people gave them credit for. The Ravens had three sacks on the day, sure, but Ben Roethlisberger also threw ... party was on each play. NFL Scores, Schedule and Blog Posts - SB Nation Sack [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:48:38

The (Formula 5) Winners - Maybe you? Plus, REAL Case Studies!

Hiya Friends! I’ve got TWO big things lined up for you today, ... done-for-you credit repair online. When I saw your video on Monday I decided to raise my price [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 00:08:05

Russia’s oligarchs queue for loans

Russian oligarchs are lining up for $78bn of Kremlin loans to survive the credit squeeze, handing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the opportunity to increase government control of the nation’s biggest companies, reports Bloomberg. More than 100 business leaders are vying for loans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 05:32:23

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